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Production schedule

Updated in 5.20.70

The production schedule places every open production order's operations on its work centre's real capacity: the centre's shifts and working days, the company's holidays, its machines side by side and its efficiency, in the order of the routing. You see which order will be late and by how much before it happens, and you can move an operation by hand.

Where

Manufacturing › Production schedule

Who

«Read the production schedule» reads it; «Schedule production» places it again, moves operations and sets priorities.

Place the schedule

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Choose the Direction: Forward from now starts each order's first operation at the first free moment; Backward from the due date places the last operation to end on the order's due day, and each one before it in time for the next. Press Schedule now.
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The line under the filters says when it was placed, by whom, how many operations and orders, how many are late, not placed, or on an alternative centre. Late orders lists each late order with its due day, the moment its last operation ends, and by how much it is late.
The production schedule with its late orders
Confirmed, released and started orders are placed; drafts are not. A started operation stays where the floor has it. Urgent orders go first, then high, normal and low; within one priority, the earlier due day first.

Read the chart

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By work centre draws a row for each machine (or station) of each centre, with the operations on it. Two operations never share one machine at the same time. The colours say a planned operation, an operation of a late order, one moved by hand, one already started, and one placed on an alternative centre.
The chart by work centre, a row for each machine
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An operation waits for the one before it, plus that one's move time and wait after it (drying, cooling) and its own queue time. When the routing gives an overlap quantity, the next operation starts once that many units are made, and never ends before the one it follows.
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When a centre is busy at the moment an operation could start, an alternative centre named on the work centre takes it if it finishes it sooner.
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By order draws a row for each open order with its operations in their order, by how much it is late, and its Priority. Changing the priority places the schedule again.
The chart by order, with each order's priority

Move an operation

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Click an operation to read it: its product, centre, machine, start, end and working time. Open the order opens its production order.
An operation moved by hand, with Let it go
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Drag the operation along its row, or press Move to. The window asks first, with the day and time and the centre (its own or an alternative). Move keeps it there and places the rest of the schedule around it.
Moving an operation asks first
A move is refused when the moment has passed, when it comes before the operation it follows allows, when every machine of the centre is held then by a started or moved operation, or when the centre is neither its own nor an alternative.
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An operation moved by hand stays at its time until you press Let it go; the schedule then places it again by its rules.

The load of each centre

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Load per work centre per day shows the hours placed on each centre against the hours it works that day. Above 100% is more work than the day holds; a dot is a day it does not work.
The load of each work centre each day

When it is placed again

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When a production order is confirmed, released, changed, finished, closed or cancelled, or an operation is reported, the schedule is placed again by itself, once a company has been scheduled.
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The shop floor tablet of each work centre lists its work in the schedule's order, including work an alternative centre was given.
Setup › Settings › Manufacturing: «Schedule production» (forward or backward), «Schedule again when an order changes», «Use alternative work centres» and «Schedule horizon (days)».
A work centre with no shift chosen is read as 08:00 to 16:00 on its working days, and the schedule says so. Choose its shifts in Manufacturing › Work centres.

Questions

Where is “Production schedule” in Zyntra OS?

Manufacturing › Production schedule

Who can use “Production schedule”?

«Read the production schedule» reads it; «Schedule production» places it again, moves operations and sets priorities.